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32 examples of Thorn in a sentence

He walked into his garden and scratched his face on a thorn.
Sitting with Jeanie one day in her apartment, she said to me, "Sharing Will is a thorn in your side.
I know those dudes in that black thorn wanted to bring about the apocalypse, but there wasn't even a date set for when it was supposed to happen.
However, the existence of films like "Graduation Day" is, without pun, a thorn in my side.
Sandra Bullock plays the heroic thorn in the way of their plans as Det.
You got Felix Ungar(Jack Lemmon); a hypochondriac, fussy neat-freak, and a big thorn in the side of his roommate, Oscar Madison(Walter Matthau); a total slob.
Watching Goldsworthy build his pieces, one develops an appreciation for every stone, leaf, and thorn that he uses.
Her relationship with her friends is both a thorn and a balm in her life.
They should of left the thorn birds alone.
They should have made a new movie called the thorn birds: the next generations that takes place after Ralph's death.
By the time Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, nearly 20 years after its original invasion, Hezbollah had become a formidable military, political, and social force in Lebanon, and a continuing thorn in Israel’s side.
Coming in the same week as China’s poorly handled removal of Tung Chee-hwa as Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, the anti-secession law episode illustrates that the mainland’s PR savvy has its limits and that Taiwan will remain an emotional and divisive thorn in the side of Sino-US relations.
The immigration issue has long been a thorn in the EU’s side, not least because of the fear-mongering and emotional manipulation that have impeded constructive debate.
The Muslim Tatars – roughly 15% of Crimea’s population – strongly oppose joining the Russian Federation and may become a permanent thorn in its side, along with the 25% of Ukrainian-speaking Crimeans who have been silenced over the past ten days.
Navalny, a 37-year-old anti-corruption lawyer, has been a thorn in Putin’s side ever since.
Pakistan is next door, and it can no more be ignored than a thorn piercing one’s side.
Nobody, least of all the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland has an interest in seeing an undemocratic, nationalistic, pro-Russian Slovak thorn emerge in NATO's side.
By establishing a frozen conflict in Donbas, Russia has jammed a thorn into Ukraine’s side and, in the short run, complicated relations between Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko and the country’s prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
They have been a persistent thorn in the side of successive British governments, but at long last Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government seems to be seeking to conclude this matter in a fair, humane, and just way.
Georgia's increasingly pro-Western course, including growing ties to NATO, has been a thorn in Moscow's side.
As a result, Dokdo has been a thorn in relations between the two countries for decades.
Then suddenly he saw her in the garden at Tostes, on a bench against the thorn hedge, or else at Rouen in the streets, on the threshold of their house, in the yard at Bertaux.
Fortunately M. de Renal called for his gardener, with whom for the rest of the time he busied himself in stopping up with faggots of thorn the short cut that had been made across the orchard.
"Senor Samson, I am not in a humour now for going into accounts or explanations," said Sancho; "for there's a sinking of the stomach come over me, and unless I doctor it with a couple of sups of the old stuff it will put me on the thorn of Santa Lucia.
Don Quixote said that even if it reached to the bottomless pit he meant to see where it went to; so they bought about a hundred fathoms of rope, and next day at two in the afternoon they arrived at the cave, the mouth of which is spacious and wide, but full of thorn and wild-fig bushes and brambles and briars, so thick and matted that they completely close it up and cover it over.
As the sun grew fiercer he found a resting-place in the heart of a circle of thorn, tucked the saddle under his head, and lay down to sleep.
The fastening was fixed with a strong acacia thorn which was found in the wood pile.
He pointed to what looked like a long, dark thorn stuck in the skin just above the ear.
"It looks like a thorn," said I."It is a thorn.
As you saw, I discovered a thorn which had been driven or shot with no great force into the scalp.